Chapter 46 Jiyi
In September, Chen Ying never saw the life and death cry a few months ago, the corpses that were flewed and smelly on the hills, and the spear formations that made people feel cold when they looked over. There were only the military flags blowing by the autumn wind on the city, and the soldiers standing with the spears under the military flag. Their reflection fell in the wide East Lake, swaying with the waves. The East Lake water was blue and the East Lake grass was green. This water that swallowed countless flesh and blood half a year ago, the water grass was lush and the fish were plump than any year.
‘Wow…’ Several scout cavalry came from the north. At first, they just siege the city. When they approached the city wall, the knights led him hesitated for a while, and rode their horses toward the collapsed city wall in the north. It is reported that Xiang Yan's army was stationed in the city for more than 200,000 troops. Once a scout cavalry approached the soldiers, they would shoot with Jing crossbows. After several great losses, the Qin army never dared to approach the city again. However, this time, until the scout cavalry ran under the collapsed city wall, there was no Jing crossbow shot out.
"Look!" A knight pointed at the rows of military tents in the city, "Muyouwu."
"Go!" The cavalry captain also saw the crows parked on the military tent at this time. He whipped the horse whip and hurried into the city. He did this, and several scout cavalry behind him had to follow him into the city.
‘Mutual-Mutual-Mutual…’, the stranger approached, and the crows on the military tent flew alertly. The crows were not one but a group, one flew up, and the whole group flew up, and the mute screams echoed in the empty city of Chen Ying, making people involuntarily cold millet.
"This is an empty city!" The cavalry captain walked around the military tent for a short while and finally found that it was an empty city. "Quick report..."
He hurriedly stopped the horse and wanted to turn around and leave the city. With a "bang--" sound, a crossbow shot down from the city wall, nailing him to the ground.
"Ah! Chen City is empty?" The Wei Realm City shrouded in the night, General Meng Wu stood up in shock after hearing the news of the detective cavalry. "A few days ago, you waited for Youyan to see Xiang Yan, why is it an empty city today?"
"Report to the general, we were three hundred steps away from Chenying City, but we rushed to the city, and we found that there were black soldiers on the military screen..." After the cavalry captain was shot to death, the rider who escaped by chance was very clever. He said these words.
"Remember the merits and retreat." Wei Liao slapped a Chu paper fan and had long anticipated Xiang Yan's withdrawal.
"What do you think?" Meng Wu also calmed down from the shock. "Where will Xiang Yan's army go?"
"The Jing people have big-winged warships, which can travel hundreds of miles a day." Wei Liao shook his head and smiled bitterly. What he most taboos to the Chu people now is not the giant iron, but the big-winged warships. The Chu army with big-winged warships can travel four or five hundred miles a day and night. The reason why King Jing wanted to demolish all the palaces and mansions in China was to build the big-winged wings. Why did the Qi people say more and more fear change? It was because of the "yue, a fierce tiger". Such fear led to the Qi people knowing that "yue is dead, but they still thought (yue) was born."
Are the Qi people timid? Of course not. The Qi people are just extremely afraid of the Yue people's boat army. It is difficult for you to judge which county and town it will be attacked by the Zhou army. Even if you make a judgment accurately, you will not be able to keep up with the Yue people's boat army. As a result, the Yue people's boat army has occupied the city and looted all the cities before reinforcements arrive at the battlefield.
It is extremely fatal to have the initiative in attacking the enemy, so the Qin army must constantly attack Chu, drag the Chu army into the field battles that the Qin army is accustomed to, and the city attack and defense wars, and cannot allow the situation to be dragged into mobile warfare by the Chu army's boat division, which makes the Qin army exhausted.
"Shangqing thinks where will Xiang Shi go at this moment?" Meng Wu also knew the threat of the Great Wing Warship, but he could not judge where the Chu army was going.
"I thought Master Xiang was at this moment, either to Daliang, to Shangcai, or to..." Wei Liao put away his fan and pointed to a most overlooked place.
"Jiyi?!" Meng Wu could not have imagined this place.
"That's right." Wei Liao let out the paper fan with a 'wow' sound. "The king wants to keep King Jing, Xiang Yan will save him."
The Qin army had been gathering, but Meng Wu did not receive the order to attack Chu. What he didn't know was that due to the Empress Dowager Huayang Zu and the current situation, Zhao Zheng's strategic intentions had not changed: if he could keep King Jing, the new King of Jing offered the art of great iron and throwing stones, then the Qin army would attack Zhao one after another. The Qin army equipped with the giant iron and armor would achieve twice the result with half the effort to attack the Zhao army without the giant iron and armor; if it could not be kept King Jing, the Jing Kingdom would be weakened to a certain extent, otherwise it would be allowed to grow stronger and threatened to Qin in the future.
This is the real policy of Qin toward Chu, and it is also the consistent principle for all the strong to deal with the weak: it does not lie in what you do, but in what you are.
The only criticism of Wei Liao for this was that the King of Qin seemed to pay special attention to the King of Chu and ignored the State of Chu itself. He could understand the King of Qin's psychology. Young people were always unwilling to admit defeat, and they were even more unwilling to admit that others were stronger than themselves. However, the battle between the states could not be at all competitive. One day, the King of Qin would pay the price for it.
The Mengwu people were on the east bank of the Wei Kingdom's Honggou. Even if the news that Xiang Yan had already deposed the camp was sent to Jiyi overnight, it would not be as fast as the Chu army's Dayi. Moreover, the Chu army had already deposed the camp a few days ago. He could only send this news to the Guowei Mansion to wait for the king's order to attack Xianyang.
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The Qin army camp in Jiyi, unlike the solemn general Meng Wu, Li Xin's face was full of excitement. A martial knight sat in front of his desk, which was a tragic look. He no longer looked like he was stabbed in a chariot by a cavalry knife that day, but the standard dress of a low-key officer of the Qin army: he wore a pair of long crowns on his head, his hair was combed into small braids like the Qin people, and his face was covered with eight-character beards. Under the leather armor, the green right-sided battle robe was wrapped in a brown battle robe. The robe was swayed over the knees, the lower body was light green, and the calves were tied on his calves, and the shoes were single-beam boots made of leather, with a qi, which was the special boots for the martial knight.
"I will hear it..." Li Xin looked at Guan Fen carefully, "Are you originally a Jing person?"
"Report to the general, the villain was once a Jing person." As soon as Hu Fen spoke, he saw Chu Yin, although he had been learning Qin language.
"Why did you rebel against Jing and enter Qin?" Li Xin asked again, not thinking about the intense Chu Yin.
"Report to the general, the villain saw that the Qin army could be awarded a title, so he entered Qin." Yuan said anxiously. This was the thing he least wanted to mention.
"Oh. Now Jing Kingdom can be named a member of the Yushi. Do you want to return to Jing?" Li Xin said with a smile.
"Liar, villain..." Hufen didn't know how to defend his loyalty to the King of Qin and couldn't speak for a moment.
"Forget it." Li Xin didn't care how Juven defended him. In fact, if he killed the Chu soldiers, he would never return to Chu State. Even if he changed his name to his surname, the Master of Chu State would not let him go. "I will ask you, have you ever met King Jing?"
"Report to the general, the villain has seen King Jing. That year, in the garden of Yingdu, the villain served King Jing and rode a horse. King Jing had a horse..." As soon as King Jing was excited, he couldn't wait to talk about it. He usually had to pour beans on the bamboo tube to tell everything he knew. Unfortunately, he was interrupted by Li Xin when he said the most critical point.
"If you want to see King Jing again, can you tell whether it is true or not?" Li Xin finally asked why Zhao Fen came here. He had to confirm that King Jing who entered Jiyi was the real King Jing, not a fake, which was extremely important. Before the war in Qin and Chu was over, King Jing was willing to break his mind than bend. It was a suspicious thing that he promised to join the Qin Alliance.
"The villain must recognize it." Hunting thought about it for a moment before he focused his attention. He always remembered the terrifying look of Xiong Jing when he killed the rabbit and terrified the horse.
"Good." Li Xin nodded and threw a feathered edict, saying, "I will order you to investigate the authenticity of King Jing tomorrow, and then give it back quickly."
"The villain is honored to accept the order." Wu Xing accepted the feathered edict and quickly agreed.
"Also," Li Xin said before he could finish his words, "After this matter, you will obey the orders under my general's account. If you make any contribution, I will never neglect it."
After Li Xin finished speaking, Huo was overjoyed. That night, he rode his horse to the dock controlled by the Qin army on the other side of Xieyi. Unfortunately, he was still one step late. When he arrived at the dock, Xiong Jing's car frame had already crossed the Huai River and stopped on the west bank of the Huai River. As soon as he came forward to investigate, the Chu army soldiers shouted "irrespectful" and forced him back with a spear.
A small low-level officer wanted to get close to the King of Chu's carriage, which was absolutely unwilling to allow. When Wu Fen was drunk, the generals of the Qin army not only did not dissuade Chu's servants, but instead glared at him, thinking that he was troublesome. Wu Fen had to retreat aside and watch one carriage after another cross the river.
Guan Fen looked at the carriage, and the soldiers who were looking at each other across the water from the Qin and Chu army also looked at the carriages. When the last carriage came ashore, Qin general waved his hand and closed the horses that had originally moved away again. Qin soldiers stood along the coast again and confronted the soldiers of the Chu army on the other side of the river. Zhaoshu watched the flag travel further and further away, and his legs became weak and he fell on the river bank.
"No, no, no." After noon, Li Xin still did not receive any exciting rewards. Xin Sheng, Bai Lin and others kept urging him to take action earlier. This time, the King of Chu entered Qin and only brought four hundred soldiers, which was vulnerable at all.
"If the person in the car is not King Jing, or just a fake king..." Li Xin explained to everyone.
"If this person is a fake king, how can I argue?" Xin Sheng and Bai Lin suddenly realized that although he had fought against King Jing several times, he could not remember King Jing's appearance.
"I have sent someone to argue. If this person cannot tell, the Prime Minister has sent an envoy to Jing State, he should know the authenticity of King Jing." Li Xin said. "Besides, King Jing has entered my Qin territory. The later he is, the further he is from Jing State, what can we worry about?"
The fish had entered the net, and every time King Jing went west, his hope of returning to the country was reduced by one point. He had to admire the strategist who came up with this strategy. A small alliance strategy reduced the armored soldiers around King Jing to a handful of four hundred. Of course, the four hundred were the dead soldiers of King Jing, but when these four hundred people faced the 30,000 soldiers, they would disappear without a trace in an instant like water droplets splashing in a charcoal basin.
Chapter completed!